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After the unit 665.002 started testing under ETCS supervision on the Czech network at the beginning of June, the same EMU appeared again in September in Olomouc.

A test service with passengers with the Sirius 665.002, which began in February this year, finished at the end of May. Now the next phase of the...

On the PSO line R23 Kolín - Ústí nad Labem, the Sirius EMU has been in test operation with passengers since 5 February 2024, but now it has also appeared on the ŽSR network.

At the beginning of 2024, the plan mentioned last summer that the Class 665 would begin trial operation, not under the umbrella of Leo Express but RegioJet, became a reality.

The plan mentioned last year that the Class 665 EMUs will execute test operation under the RegioJet umbrella has become a reality.

The CRRC-built unit 665.002 is present in Slovakia for the purpose of testing required as part of the approval process for operation on the ŽSR network.

On 26 November 2022, 665.001 arrived in Přerov.

After the first test runs with unit 665.002 on the Správa železnic network took place in September, 665.001 is now on the main line as well.

On 19 September 2022, one of the Sirius EMUs originally ordered by Leo Express from CRRC, undertook test runs on the Správa železnic network.

On 4 May 2022, a CRRC-built double-deck EMU for WESTbahn arrived at the VUZ Velim test centre.

In spite of the fact that CRRC claims that the Class 665 approval is to be awarded soon, it will take at least until 2023.

Leo Express is one of the operators affected by the drop in rail passenger transport due to the coronavirus crisis.

On 19 December 2019, the second of the three Sirius EMUs ordered by Leo Express from CRRC set out for the final part of its long journey from China.

The first of the three CRRC-built EMUs ordered by Leo Express started its first test runs at the VUZ Velim test centre in early November. By the...